Screening Auschwitz

"Screening Auschwitz is a short book with a clearly defined focus . . . Haltof’s ability to weave so much primary material that would otherwise be inaccessible to non-Polish speaking readers into such a compact study makes Screening Auschwitz a key text for researchers and students working in this field." —Studies in European Cinema

“This meticulously researched, very informative and valuable book will make an important contribution to the fields of Holocaust and Polish film studies."
—Marat Grinberg, author of "I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left:" The Poetics of Boris Slutsky

“The originality and quality of the scholarship on display in this book is extremely high. Haltof’s use of sources greatly expands the frame and depth of his analysis, and few researchers who have worked on Jakubowska’s arguably most important work have ever tapped these sources before.” —Stuart Liebman, editor of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Key Essays

"Given the richness of data that Screening Auschwitz is bringing, together, the volume will clearly stand as the major reference point not just for future research on Jakubowska's film, but on research about early Holocaust cinema in general." —Gerd Bayer, Holocaust Studies

"Impeccably documented, Screening Auschwitz also boasts stills from The Last Stage that are crisp and evocative." —Annette Insdorf, Slavic Review

". . . Haltof's ability to weave so much primary material that would otherwise be inaccessible to non-Polish speaking readers into such a compact study makes Screening Auschwitz a key text for researchers and students working in this field." —Elizabeth M. Ward, Studies in European Cinema

"As this thoroughly researched book convincingly demonstrates, Wanda Jakubowska's classic of 1948 placed a cornerstone in the edifice of how Auschwitz was understood and commemorated on screen in the decades to come. The special value of Haltof's study is in conveying just how problematic a cornerstone Ostatni etap (The Last Stage) is . . . In his thought-provoking book Haltof provides an extensive and stimulating treatment of a seminal filmic work that in light of all the issues raised deserves continued attention." —Christopher Grabowski, The Polish Review